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Category: Guns

  • Where’s the ammo?

    Paul and Claymore send us a link to CNS which says that the nation’s police departments are having to beg and borrow ammo while the Feds go on a buying spree;

    Chief Pryor of Rollingwood, Texas says of the shortage:

    “We started making phone calls and realized there is a waiting list up to a year. We have to limit the amount of times we go and train because we want to keep an adequate stock.”

    “Nobody can get us ammunition at this point,” says Sgt. Jason LaCross of the Bozeman, Montana police department.

    LaCross says that manufacturers are so far behind that they won’t even give him a quote for an order.

    “We have no estimated time on when it will even be available,” LaCross says.

    He worries that when ammunition is finally available the high price will squeeze the department’s budget.

    And, oh, yeah, the Department of Homeland Security isn’t telling Congress why they’re buying so much ammo – 1.6 billion rounds.

    Of course, those of you who heeded my warning last year that the Obama Administration was buying up ammo have no problems, right? I hope you didn’t listen to the naysayers who said that it would have no effect on ammo availability or prices. I was buying 5.56mm for about $.40/round last year and now it’s up to over $1/round, that is if you can find it. Even .22 ammo is at a premium.

  • Charles Rangel: Not Just Ethically-Challenged Any More

    We all know about Congressman Charles Rangel’s recent ethical troubles – even if his constituents apparently don’t, or know and don’t care.  But apparently he’s somewhat “challenged” in other ways, too.

    Here’s what Rangel had to say yesterday:

    We’re talking about millions of kids dying — being shot down by assault weapons, were talking about handguns easier in the inner cities, to get these guns in the inner cities, than to get computers. This is not just a political issue, it’s a moral issue and so when we condemn the NRA we should not ignore the fact that a lot of people that have taken moral positions have been solid on this big one.

    Uh, Mr. Congressman – millions of kids being shot down by assault weapons?  Really?  Oh hell no.  You’re out of your freaking mind.

    There were less than 8,600 (8,583) US firearms homicides in 2011 – total.  At that pace, it would take over 116 1/2  years to get 1,000,000 total firearms homicides.  Further:  less than 4% of them (323) were committed with rifles of any type – let alone “assault weapons”.   So you’re talking over three millenia to get 1,000,000 killed by rifles of any type.

    And do I really need to remind you that not all rifles are “assault weapons”, Congressman Rangel?  I thought anyone with 3 or more working brain cells realized that.

    What a moron.  And yet the voters of his deep-blue, mostly Manhattan district keep returning him to Congress.

  • Federal Court upholds Maryland restrictive gun law

    Yeah, this is total BS. The Federal Appeals Court upheld the idiot laws in Maryland which requires that an applicant be in imminent danger to qualify for a CCW permit. The Baltimore Sun doesn’t tell the whole story;

    The case began with Baltimore County resident Raymond Woollard, who sued after he was denied a permit. A national gun rights advocacy group took on the case, arguing that Maryland unnecessarily restricts the right to carry firearms.

    A federal district judge agreed last March, striking down that requirement as unconstitutional.

    The Maryland attorney general’s office, fearing a spike in gun violence, appealed the decision, and the federal court of appeals allowed the law to stand during the challenge.

    The whole story is that Woollard had a permit after proving that he was in imminent danger from a guy who lived three miles from him and had previously forced his way into Woollard’s house. When Woollard tried to protect his family with a long gun, the intruder wrestled the gun from him, Woollard’s son got another gun and brought order to the situation until police arrived.

    Because of the attack, Woollard was issued a permit. That was in 2005. Woollard renewed his permit once, but when he went back in 2009 to renew it again, the permit was denied because “his application was incomplete: “Evidence is needed to support apprehended fear (i.e. – copies of police reports for assaults, threats, harassments, stalking).””

    So, Woollard sued, along with the Second Amendment Foundation. He won in the U S District Court which decided that Maryland’s restrictive regulations violated the Second Amendment;

    Defendants’ application of Maryland Public Safety Code §5-306(a)(5)(ii)’s requirement that handgun carry permit applicants demonstrate “good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such . . . that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger,” violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, damaging Plaintiffs in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

    But now the appellate court has overturned that decision. He had a permit for more than four years as a law-abiding citizen, but now, because his attacker is in prison, he doesn’t need one anymore. So basically, you can’t have a permit in Maryland until it’s too late.

  • Thursday feel good firearm story

    Tman sends a link to the story about rambunctious teens who just happened to steal their parents’ truck, 17 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition and took off on a lark, until they got to Maypearl, Texas;

    On Wednesday afternoon, a homeowner in Maypearl — 35 miles south of Dallas and some 240 miles south of Bethel Acres — noticed someone was trying to open her back door. She looked out the window and saw a camouflage-clad armed man.

    Her husband yelled and retrieved a gun. Two suspects darted from behind the house and ran toward a field, firing at the home as they fled. The husband shot back and may have hit one of the suspects, Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown said. The woman called 911.

    Sheriff’s deputies found one suspect dead in the field and the other inside the stolen pickup truck. Both appeared to have died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the sheriff’s department said. No one else was hurt.

    Of course, the father of one teen says that the son he knew wouldn’t have done any of that. I guess that that explains how the teen got his hands on 17 guns and a couple of thousand rounds of ammunition.

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  • Are guns child abuse now?

    Old Trooper and Dominick sent us a link to this story about Shawn Moore who got a call from his wife that New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) were at his house demanding to see his weapons. The original story appeared at Delaware Open Carry.

    Last night I was out with a buddy of mine. I got a text from my wife that the cops and dyfs are at the house and they wanna check out my guns and needed me to open my safe.

    I’m instantly on my way. I get in contact with evan Nappen on the way. I explain the situation. I walk in my house and hand the phone to the first cop I see. Then direct all of em outside. Dyfs got a call because of a pic on my son holding a gun. They wanted to look around and check all my guns out, make sure they were all registered. Obviously that didn’t go well because I refused. I had Nappen on speaker phone the entire time so they had to deal with both of us. They kept trying to pressure me to open my safe. They had no warrant, no charges, nothing. I didn’t budge. I was told I was being “unreasonable” and that I was acting suspicious because I wouldn’t open my safe. Told me they were gonna get a search warrant. Told em go ahead. Nappen (my lawyer) asked me for the dyfs workers name. she wouldnt give it. i asked for credentials and she wouldnt show em. i tried to take a pic of her and she turned around real fast and walked away. After a while of them threatening to take my kids, get warrants and intimidation they left. Empty handed and seeing nothing.

    So what was it all about? This photo of Moore’s 12-year-old son holding a .22 rifle;
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  • Spreadsheet from Hell

    You often hear the term “<whatever> from hell” used to refer to things that are unusually disagreeable or difficult.  But on occasion, the phrase is chillingly apropos – and literal.

    Consider Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook mass murderer.  He was obviously mentally disturbed.  But he could be meticulous about things that interested him.

    How meticulous?  Try conducting extensive research on past mass-killings – and creating a spreadsheet containing information about over 500 people killed in such incidents.   Lanza’s research was both extensive and detailed, including such things as the number of people killed in an incident, their names, and the weapons that were used – down to the precise make/model of the weapons in some cases.

    The spreadsheet, printed in 9-point type, would have measured approx 7 feet long and 4 feet wide.

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  • More Words of Wisdom . . .

    . . . from guess who:

    “The one person I don’t want to have a weapon is a fugitive from justice.  I’d rather have an ex-felon have access to a weapon than someone fleeing the justice system.”

    Yeah, you guessed it.  That was our “brilliant” VP, Joseph Biden, speaking to the National League of Cities this past Tuesday.

    Suit yourself, Mr. VP.  Personally, I’d rather neither had a weapon.

    But I do have to wonder about the VP’s statement after thinking some about what he said.  As I recall, someone with an outstanding unpaid traffic ticket is technically a “fugitive from justice”.  I think I’d rather see that particular fugitive with a gun vice some unrepentant 35-year-old hard case who’s just got out after doing 15 years for rape and attempted murder.

    (No, that’s not unrealistic.  This guy will be eligible for parole after 20 years after being convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of a 10 year old child.)

    There are some other real “gems” in the VP’s remarks.  There is a short video at the link, so you can hear them yourself if you like.

    I’d say enjoy, but unlike liberals preaching gun control I refuse to be a public hypocrite.